BUS 475 WEEK 2 ASSIGNMENT 1

Assignment 1

Learning Team Charter

Overview

In this course, your team will work together to complete a few assignments. This chartering assignment is designed to help you apply your project management skills to understand the scope of your project, then break the project into goals, tasks, responsibilities, resources, and milestones. The assignment also asks you to discuss and answer some questions that will lay the foundation for developing your project.

Beyond the Standard Charter

You will notice that this chartering process goes beyond your standard University of Phoenix Charter by helping your team create a project plan for team success by providing you with opportunities to define your deliverables, recognize the connections between the deliverables and other classroom activities, determine your timelines and milestones, identify each team member's expected contribution, and answer questions that lay the foundation for building your projects.

Putting "I" in "Team"

Important to note is the section for defining learning team expectations related to participation, collaboration, communication, team contributions, assignment deadlines, and other considerations. Please take the time to discuss and document how your team will address each area and any challenges that may arise.  It is important to understand that we are "Putting 'I' in 'Team'". In short, we will recognize and reward individuals according to their contributions to team output, not according to their team membership. This means that individual grades may be different from the team grade depending on each individual's contribution to each team deliverable.

Completing This Assignment

Do the following to complete this assignment:

• Review the Charter and Project plan.
• Review the weekly Learning Team deliverables.
• Complete the provided Learning Team Charter and Project Plan, including the following: team member contact information, project by week, learning team expectations, team discussion questions.

Learning Team Charter –ABC/123 Team X

Overview

A learning team is defined as a group of individuals who work to accomplish mutual goals and output (University of Phoenix, 2014). Throughout your academic journey, you will have an opportunity to engagein learning that will support you in developing skills associated with the University Learning Goals of collaboration, communication, critical thinking and problem solving, information utilization, and competence and professional values. Learning teams involve group participation and discussions; however, the outcome is for the team to submit one deliverable in which every member of the team contributes. While a grade is awarded to each team member, not all team members receive the same grade as grades are awarded based upon the contributions of the team member. Your faculty member will assign learning teams as students will work together to submit Learning Team assignment(s).

Reference

University of Phoenix (2014). Learning team toolkit: Team basics. University of Phoenix Library.

Instructions

Complete the Team Member Contact Information, Learning Team Assignment Project Plan by Week, and Team Expectations tables. Each team member should participate in the discussion and completion of each section of the Learning Team Charter.  This assignment is worth 5 points.

Team Member Contact Information

Learning Team Assignment Project Plan by Week

Create a project plan for each Learning Team assignment using the table below. Determine as a group, the Project Plan table elements.

As there are Learning Team assignments which will require you to collaborate with your teammates to complete your assignments for the duration of this course, each team member has an opportunity to document how the team will achieve its assignment deliverables. To ensure full team participation, please complete the project plan to establish Learning Team guidelines for your weekly team assignments. Keep in mind that only those who participate in team discussions and contribute to the completion of the assignment will earn points.

Note: On the title page for your Learning Team assignments, only include the names of the team members who contributed to the completion of the team assignment. Please refer to your Learning Team Charter to review Learning Team expectations.

For each Learning Team assignment for this course, establish team guidelines by completing the table below. Learning Team assignments may not be due every week.  Please list the assignments due each week. If there is no Learning Team assignment due, list N/A in the category for the week.

Learning Team Expectations

Establish team expectations by completing the table below.Determine as a group, how you will address the ground rules for engagement. Each team member should contribute to a discussion leading to consensus around team expectations.